Alaskan Bear

[arbycoffee]

Alaskan Bear

The pictures are of a man who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear.

He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head.



The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds It stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world.

Of course, the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him keep it as a trophy, but the bear will be stuffed and mounted, and placed on display at the Anchorage airport to remind tourists of the risks involved when in the wild.



Based on the contents of the bears stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission established the bear had killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours including a missing hiker.

The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. The other body has not been found.

Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (the Service ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7mm slugs inside the bear's dead body), it only wounded the bear and probably angered it immensely.

The bear killed the hiker an estimated two days prior to the bear's own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker.

Think about this:

If you are an average size man; You would be level with the bear's navel when he stood upright. The bear would look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that this particular bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof, or walk up to a two story house and look in the bedroom windows.

Believe it or not

[RKnarr01]

it looks like something out of a movie, the head is huge on that thing

[doodude]

I dunno, Id rather see the bear still walking around.
Well, not actually SEE IT, but just knowing it was out there kicking tourist ass would sorta bring me a little satisfaction.
Im not a tree hugger or anything, but I find the plight of bears, gorillas & other wild animals sad.

[arbycoffee]

The pictures don't look doctored, or photoshoped

[RKnarr01]

i think something that big is better off dead, it prevents people from wanting to be outside if they know something of that size is out there.

[slotter]

7mm semi-automatic??? Haha! Wow, too small to bring it down. No wonder he had so much trouble killing this large animal. Lucky he's alive... This guy needs to get more fire power.

[logicprobe]

.... it only wounded the bear and probably angered it immensely.

Believe it or not

I'd believe THAT! :lmao:

[d mowery]

Ive taken a few bears , I said Bears not beers , in my hunting days and I be darn if I would use any thing smaller than 30:06 , in my stupid days I used a 30 30 lever , Got one that year but took 5 shots to bring it down , never did that dumb trick any more,
PS mine were black bears no Grizz or Kody and one moose that wanted to use me for a hat rack ornament, had a hard time explainen that to the Game warden untill someone from the area said they had been chased out of ther garden by one, one shot plop that sucker went down right now , lucky vshot I guess.

[arbycoffee]

cool Dons

[d mowery]

Ya I got lucky on the moose , But man I had braggin rights for a long time on that one ,didn't get to keep any of it for myself as out of season , If I member corectly I needed some extra absorbant depends and a big roll of tolit paper after that, that thing looked like a semi commin bout 90 miles per hour , but in reality probly a lot slower than my scared brain was thinkin, ya I had my azz in gear but feet forgot to move

[arbycoffee]

THAT'S WHERE YOU SAY IT than do it in your pants

[luckydog]

he was hunting for deer and a 7mm is a good deer cartridge.

a good side arm would have been a 45 automatic. or 44 magnum.

[d mowery]

Arby - you right bout that ,

[Tony Junior]

That is one BIG bear!

I wonder if the Forest Service guy had to chance his underwear?